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2015-12-23ia64: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()Li Bin
There is no need to worry about module and __init text disappearing case, because that ftrace has a module notifier that is called when a module is being unloaded and before the text goes away and this code grabs the ftrace_lock mutex and removes the module functions from the ftrace list, such that it will no longer do any modifications to that module's text, the update to make functions be traced or not is done under the ftrace_lock mutex as well. And by now, __init section codes should not been modified by ftrace, because it is black listed in recordmcount.c and ignored by ftrace. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449214067-12177-2-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-07ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_initJiri Slaby
As the data parameter is not really used by any ftrace_dyn_arch_init, remove that from ftrace_dyn_arch_init. This also removes the addr local variable from ftrace_init which is now unused. Note the documentation was imprecise as it did not suggest to set (*data) to 0. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-4-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-07ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()Jiri Slaby
No architecture uses the "data" parameter in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() in any way, it just sets the value to 0. And this is used as a return value in the caller -- ftrace_init, which just checks the retval against zero. Note there is also "return 0" in every ftrace_dyn_arch_init. So it is enough to check the retval and remove all the indirect sets of data on all archs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-01-14ftrace, ia64: IA64 dynamic ftrace supportShaohua Li
IA64 dynamic ftrace support. The original _mcount stub for each function is like: alloc r40=ar.pfs,12,8,0 mov r43=r0;; mov r42=b0 mov r41=r1 nop.i 0x0 br.call.sptk.many b0 = _mcount;; The patch convert it to below for nop: [MII] nop.m 0x0 mov r3=ip nop.i 0x0 [MLX] nop.m 0x0 nop.x 0x0;; This isn't completely nop, as there is one instuction 'mov r3=ip', but it should be light and harmless for code follow it. And below is for call [MII] nop.m 0x0 mov r3=ip nop.i 0x0 [MLX] nop.m 0x0 brl.many .;; In this way, only one instruction is changed to convert code between nop and call. This should meet dyn-ftrace's requirement. But this requires CPU support brl instruction, so dyn-ftrace isn't supported for old Itanium system. Assume there are quite few such old system running. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>